BREAKING: Tinubu meets six APC governors at Aso Rock Villa

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President Bola Tinubu on Monday held closed-door talks with six governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the State House, Abuja.

The governors filed into the President’s office at about 04:00 pm (local time).

Monday’s meeting lasted under an hour and ended without a public briefing from any of the six state executives.

PUNCH Online could not immediately confirm the agenda of the meeting.

Those in attendance were the governors of Jigawa, Umar Namadi; Edo, Monday Okpebholo; Ekiti, Biodun Oyebanji; Kogi, Usman Ododo; Sokoto, Aliyu Sokoto; and Kebbi, Nasir Idris.

The meeting comes as the country confronts fresh security headwinds, including abductions and eventual release of school children and worshipers across parts of the North-West and North-Central.

Several of the states represented in Monday’s meeting, Kebbi, Sokoto and Kogi, have suffered banditry and kidnap-for-ransom attacks in recent months, prompting tighter federal-state coordination on intelligence, policing and rural security.

On November 26, Tinubu declared a nationwide security emergency, ordering the army, police and intelligence services to immediately expand recruitment and deploy thousands of additional personnel.

He had also asked security agencies to prioritise the safety of schools, farms and places of worship, while governors step up local early-warning systems.

It also follows the change of Defence Minister last week and renewed outreach to foreign partners on counter-terrorism support.

When approached by State House correspondents after the meeting, the governors declined to comment.

With three years of experience, Stephen, The PUNCH correspondent, has been covering Nigeria’s presidency, politics, security, immigration and trafficking in persons

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